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Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries since America began, the Pilgrims have been relegated to folklore and children's stories, fairy-tale mascots for holiday parties and greeting cards. The true story of the Pilgrim Fathers could not be more different. Beginning with the execution of two pastors deviating from the Elizabethan Church of England, the Pilgrims...
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Una denuncia ignorada durante más de cincuenta años. Un antecedente directo de Las venas abiertas de América Latina.
En 1967, un jovencísimo Eduardo Galeano emprendió un viaje que marcaría su carrera como periodista y su sensibilidad política para siempre: pasó varios meses en Guatemala con el objetivo de entrevistar a los líderes de los dos grupos guerrilleros—las FAR y el MR 13—que desafiaban a la elite político-militar en el poder...
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"Supimos cómo enfrentar el peligro para ganar nuestra libertad, sabremos cómo enfrentar a la muerte para mantenerla."
Toussaint L'Ouverture fue el líder de la Revolución haitiana del pasado siglo xviii, en la que los esclavos se rebelaron contra sus amos y establecieron la primera república negra. En esta colección de sus escritos y discursos, el expolítico haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide demuestra la profunda contribución de L'Ouverture...
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This book compares the trajectories of states and societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America under neoliberalism, a time marked by serial economic crises, escalating social conflicts, the remilitarisation of North-South relations and the radicalisation of social and nationalist forces.
Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros bring together researchers and activists from the three continents to assess the state of national sovereignty and the challenges faced...
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Mainstream nationalist narratives and political movements have dominated the Israeli-Palestinian situation for too long. In this much-needed book, Ran Greenstein challenges this hegemony by focusing on four different, but at the same time connected, attempts which stood up to Zionist dominance and the settlement project before and after 1948.
Greenstein begins by addressing the role of the Palestinian Communist Party, and then the bi-nationalist...
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The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that, it inscribed the role that young people of subsequent generations could play in their country's future. Since that, momentous time students have held a special place in the collective imaginary of South African history. Drawing on research and writing by...
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The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique, whatever the media may suggest. Lorenzo Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism, as like many other societies, Israel is a settler society. Looking at the evolution of other colonial regimes - apartheid South Africa, French Algeria and Australia - Veracini presents a thoughtful interpretation of the dynamics of colonialism.
He challenges two important...
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In A Theory of Imperialism, the economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the tropical and subtropical countries of the global South and considers how the demand for commodities (such as agricultural products and oil) from the South has perpetuated and solidified...
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Décoloniser la décolonisation québécoise
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L'œil du maître interroge le mythe du maître chez nous qui définit les luttes souverainistes au Québec, la relation au territoire et aux Premières Nations. Contre la conquête, la domination, la surveillance, Dalie Giroux revendique une autre idée de l'indépendance, à rebours de la violence fondatrice de l'État. Elle évoque le rendez-vous manqué avec un passé-futur décolonial du...
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Spike Island was the largest British military-run prison for republican prisoners and internees in Munster and south Leinster during the Irish War of Independence, housing almost 1,400 men. The author has, compiled an outstanding record of all of these men using primary source material from Irish Military Archives, prisoners and internee autograph books and British Army records from the UK National Archives. The book describes the background to the...
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Debates about decolonisation of the mind and of our curricula reveal the dark shadow cast over the world by the adventurers of the modern era, beginning in 1492. Decolonisation explores questions of justice, injustice and inhumanity that have geographically and intellectually shaped the course of history through overlapping colonial, decolonial and postcolonial eras.
This multidisciplinary collection uses the lenses of history, philosophy, literature...
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Drawing on case studies of organized violence-ranging from territorial wars and colonial conquests to non-state variants such as organized crime-this record offers a general theory to account for the use of force in both the state and civil sectors of society. Challenging the popular views that the dominant forms of violence are due to failings of human nature, this volume suggests that the laws and institutions favoring an approach to property rights...
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SynopsisThis exploration delves into Western representations of the East, unveiling the deep-seated biases, stereotypes, and power imbalances ingrained within them. It highlights how these representations, rooted in colonialist narratives, have influenced global perceptions, policies, and societal attitudes. The analysis emphasizes the need for recalibrating discourse by amplifying diverse narratives, fostering cross-cultural understanding, and challenging...
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Vivimos sumergidos en la política, bombardeados por noticias nacionales o internacionales que yuxtaponen guerras, elecciones, crisis económicas, delitos de sangre. En este marco, periodistas, intelectuales mediáticos y ensayistas varios, en lugar de echar luz sobre el debate público, introducen lugares comunes, cuando no errores o distorsiones. Del otro lado, el cientificismo de algunos investigadores los inhibe de ocuparse del mundo social por...
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La conquista de México ha sido, a lo largo de la historia, una verdadera "guerra de imágenes" entre México y España, un caso flagrante de manipulación histórica, por ambas partes, cuyos ecos envenenados llegan hasta el presente.
La Corona española silenció la conquista de México en su propaganda bélica, en sus salas de batallas y en sus espacios de Estado. Los monarcas no querían ser recordados como conquistadores de las Indias sino como...
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#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black...
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Three questions: 'Where have we got to with the Treaty of Waitangi?'; 'Is where we have got to a good place?' and 'Where do we go from here?' Simple questions we thought. But nothing is simple when you start asking questions about the Treaty of Waitangi. Two years later we have emerged battered and bruised but with something we want to say. 'Folks, we might be about to crash the truck and you're not even looking!" Mäori leaders aspire to more political...
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Guardians of Eden Manual I extracted from Vol. II of God's Country, a guide to identifying what is wrong in the chiefdoms and the country and putting it right. It is a practical manual, a legal, policy and organizational aid to the future, a reference site for the chiefdoms to maintain their ecosocial sovereignty.
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Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernisation. However, the author's fieldwork for this book uncovered evidence of the resilience of Africa's endogenous...
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